Health Insurance Should Be More Available to Latinos | The ...

By Paul Ortiz, Feb. 19, 2014The Obama administration and state governments need to do more to get Latinos signed up under the Affordable Care Act.A recent New York Times story noted that Latinos were lagging in getting coverage.With a focus on California, the only state to track enrollment in its health insurance exchange by ethnicity, this story noted that Latinos, who account for nearly half of the state’s uninsured population, make up less than 20 percent of those enrolled in the Covered California exchange.On a national level, enrollment of Latinos in the state exchanges is critical for the viability of the Affordable Care Act. Latinos are a generally youthful population, and their participation in the insurance pools is vital to the long-term prospects of keeping …


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